John Deckop

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John Deckop

  • Fox School of Business and Management

    • Human Resource Management

      • Professor

Biography

John R. Deckop has taught for over 25 years in the areas of Human Resource Management and Business Ethics. He has received several teaching honors including the Musser Award for Teaching (2007), the Fox School’s MBA Professor of the Year (1998) and MS in Human Resource Management (Singapore) Faculty of the Year (2014). His volunteer work includes service on the boards of several nonprofit organizations.

Dr. Deckop is currently researching in the areas of reward systems and motivation, materialism and workplace outcomes, and spirituality and work. He has published in numerous academic journals, including Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Management, Journal of Business Ethics, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, and Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, among others. News articles around the country have quoted his research. He is a member of the editorial board of Group and Organization Management and is a Research Fellow at the Cornell Institute for Compensation Studies.

Research Interests

  • Pay for Performance
  • Materialism
  • Human Resource Management Ethics

Courses Taught

Number

Name

Level

BA 3102

Business Society and Ethics

Undergraduate

BA 9883

Directed Reading/Study

Graduate

HRM 5131

Ethics and Social Responsibility in Organizations

Graduate

Selected Publications

Recent

  • McClendon, J., Deckop, J., Han, S., & Petrucci, T. (2020). A study of system execution of performance appraisal. International Journal of Selection and Assessment, 28(3), 322-336. doi: 10.1111/ijsa.12289.

  • Morand, D., Merriman, K., & Deckop, J. (2020). Making sense of egalitarian pay: Reconceptualising its treatment in organisations. Human Resource Management Journal, 30(2), 180-197. doi: 10.1111/1748-8583.12264.

  • Promislo, M., Giacalone, R., & Deckop, J. (2017). Assessing Three Models of Materialism–Postmaterialism and Their Relationship with Well-Being: A Theoretical Extension. Journal of Business Ethics, 143(3), 531-541. doi: 10.1007/s10551-015-2788-9.

  • Deckop, J., Merriman, K., & Morand, D. When Less is More: Sorting Effects of Small Pay Differentials. Paris, France.